Details : Challenge Level as a guideline for your choice.
On click the left image picture, you can get a tab sheet of the 1st page of "Maple Leaf Rag", which I played on YouTube. Please play it as you like, and what you have played and felt may be reflected to Challenge Level.
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Challenge Level
Level - D : Expert in All of the Guitar... "Wizard"!
If you feel easy to play in quick tempo, like a veteran piano player as "Louis Chauvin", you will be a "Master of Jedi on Ragtime Guitar"... CONGRATS! You can try the most difficult ones in D level, where I myself often feel so hard to play... Please post your playing video on YouTube!
Level - C : Well Player in All Ragtime Guitar... "Veteran"!
If you can play in a slow tempo but without lots of stopping for break, you will be possible to try something in C level, where this "Maple Leaf" itself may be situated. With "kung fu" you go building from now - what means lots of effort for competence, Angel of Ragtime will finally bless you... I hope so! However, my angel might be often sleeping in heaven...?!
Level - B : Starter in "Classic Ragtime" Style... "Intermediate"!
Being in B level in this guideline, you may have found lots of difficulties, feeling like some classical guitar tune. However, if you can play with keen interest - chasing and tracking the fingering and picking on the tab sheet - and feel some fun to play this difficult one, you will be able to open the door for this wonderland from Level B. But remember please that you will need lots of time and passion to spend...!
Level - A : Begginer in Popular Ragtime Guitar... "Standard"
Well... the rest of you may not be used to play the inherent style and techniques of Popular Ragtime Guitar Style, like "octave bass picking" and complex fingering forms etc. But if you have a mind to challenge, please start from this A level, while I feel sorry for not preparing proper arrangements enough. So I also recommend you to exercise another arrangements popular and easier than mine; some will be found in the music books of Mr. Stefan Grossman. Anyway... Have a nice picking!
